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Scottie’s world today
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In other words his income is tied to fossil fuels and he want the US to keep using them. The idea that by using more fossil fuels such as oil and coal we can make the plant cleaner is asinine. Manchin is hoping what he said will be picked up and run on the right wing misleading media as sound bites. He wants to make sure the clean energy parts of the Build Back Better bill are dead even though much of the country wants to and is ready to do more to fix the climate crisis.
Take away obstruction and Republicans will have to work.
No bigger performative coward than Mike Pence.
The system needs to be replaced. You can’t reform this.
![““Yes, of course [peaceful Muslims] exist, and those people are not good Muslims, but they’re good people. So, I’m talking about the doctrine of Islam itself, that’s what it prescribes, that’s what it’s calling for Muslims to do.”
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“Yes, of course [peaceful Muslims] exist, and those people are not good Muslims, but they’re good people. So, I’m talking about the doctrine of Islam itself, that’s what it prescribes, that’s what it’s calling for Muslims to do.”
The peaceful ones are the ones who don’t take it seriously.
Same with Christian and Christianity. Honestly most followers of a religion do not really know what the holy texts of that religion preach and why.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
“Race” is a construct. There are only humans. That hasn’t stopped one set of humans for using demographic labels (race, religion, sex, economic class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.) as a means to suppress and kill that hated group. It’s human nature, unfortunately. We hate. We kill. Dig deep enough and you’ll find greed is the reason. It’s the most humanistic trait there is.
The old hero fantasy. Unlike in the movies there is a real mess to clean up. People who buy guns to shoot intruders are eight times more likely to shoot their own children. The burglary rate has dropped by half over the last ten years. The homicide rate, however, has climbed in those ten years. But it’s not because people are shooting burglars. Mostly it’s family or random, often unarmed strangers on the street.
Using the FBI data, the violent crime rate fell 49% between 1993 and 2019, with large decreases in the rates of robbery (-68%), murder/non-negligent manslaughter (-47%) and aggravated assault (-43%). Meanwhile, the property crime rate fell 55%, with big declines in the rates of burglary (-69%), motor vehicle theft (-64%) and larceny/theft (-49%).
Using the BJS statistics, the declines in the violent and property crime rates are even steeper than those reported by the FBI. Per BJS, the overall violent crime rate fell 74% between 1993 and 2019, while the property crime rate fell 71%.
So historically crime rates are down. Crime has risen as people are more desperate and stressed. However it is no where near the terrifying levels that the misleading right wing media wants to portray. Ask your self why it is so important for the misleading right wing media to push the narrative of a national crime wave? It is political. They want to find anything they can to make people feel the country is going wrong with Biden in charge. Don’t believe their hyped myth.
The right wing screamers that appointing a black woman is racist seem to have the assumption that race is the only qualification Biden is looking for and that there is no qualified black woman. That is racist. The idea of a white man not automatically getting the position while a black person must fight for it is shocking to the right.
Congress hasn’t done a good job since the GOP went off the range with the Tea Party, Trumpism, MAGA, and the other whack jobs they brought in.
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And now some for fun
Scottie's Playtime 
Steve Kelley continues to LIE about the border crisis, even though he has been caught in his LIES many times.
The border crisis was caused 100% by DONALD TRUMP.
When Trump took office, illegal border crossings were at a FORTY-YEAR LOW because Dubya Bush (one of the few things he got right) and Obama had in place systems to stabilize minority indigenous communities who were the targets of racist gang violence. In one single day (June 17, 2019), TRUMP CANCELED EVERYTHING, not gradually or phased out, but all at once, and a border crisis from Central America resulted. It takes years to build bridges, a single day to blow them up. TRUMP BLEW IT UP. And yes, VP Harris is on it. The crisis is in Central America, not at our border (which Harris, as a native Californian from a border state, has been to many times). She has already met (in person and via Zoom) with the presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Stabilization aid is being restored and the numbers of illegal border crossings are already plummeting. Again, blame the Democrats WHO ARE ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING to return to stability, for the problem TRUMP CAUSED.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-trump/as-promised-trump-slashes-aid-to-central-america-over-migrants-idUSKCN1TI2C7
Under Obama / Biden, our nation had brought the border to its most stable level — lowest number of illegal border crossings — in MORE THAN FORTY YEARS — by removing the incentives for coming here: addressing the violence, neighborhood insecurity and economic collapse and other issues that drive people out of their ancestral homelands.
Those leaving are predominantly INDIGENOUS MAYAN. They do not want to leave the ancestral homelands their people have occupied for tens of thousands of years, long predating the arrival of brutal European thugs.